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“Fall on deaf ears”in other languages

Be ignored, however sensible.

  • English
  • Dutch
  • German
  • Portuguese
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English and Dutch speak to the deaf, voor dovemansoren. German speaks into the wind, in den Wind sprechen, which blows the words away.

Portuguese has two: talking to the walls, falar com as paredes, and words falling into a torn sack, cair em saco roto, where nothing stays in.

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